#SCAA2015 Lecture: How Sust. Pros. In Specialty Turn Good Ideas Into Better Business Practices

This panel discussion will feature insights from 3-5 leading sustainability thinkers and practitioners in specialty coffee about the ways that all the good ideas out there for making the coffee trade more sustainable get identified, developed, tested, refined and ultimately adopted as better business practices. The panel will start with a general discussion of sustainability itself? How do each of the participating companies define it and what are the common elements of that definition??and move into the specifics of how specialty leaders innovate to make the trade more sustainable. The panel will further explore specific initiatives undertaken by each of the companies represented and will address the environmental, social and economic impacts of their business models, as well as innovations around supply chain and price transparency, the role certifications play as part o...